Walton-Fulton County GaArchives News.....Students at Oglethorpe Stage School Elopement February 5, 1932
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"THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION''  Friday Morning, Febuary 5, 1932, Page 8 February 5, 1932

             Students at Oglethorpe Stage School Elopement

             [Picture of Paul Prather and Virginia Riggs]

   Paul Prather, Oglethrope freshman and Virginia Riggs, junior at the same 
institution, who slipped away quietly Thursday evening on their honeymoon 
after their secret marriage. The honeymooners will go to Washington to take 
part in the bicentennial celebration in honor of George Washington.

   Unknown to a large number of their mutual friends at Oglethorpe University 
where they attended classes, Virginia Riggs, a junior, and Paul Prather, 
freshman, staged a "school elopement" Thursday night, and at this writing are 
on route to Washington D. C. to spend their honeymoon in the city where 
statemen point with pride and view with alarm.
   Prather, who is 22 years of age, is from Monroe, Ga., and the bride is the 
19-year-old daughter of Mrs. L. C. Riggs, of 1402 West Peachtree street, 
formerly of Albertville, Ala. Only Mrs. Riggs was let in on the secret of the 
matrimonial plans of the couple, who decided Wednesday that the time had come 
to do more than merely talk of many things.
   And so Thursday evening they bied themselves forth to the residence of Rev. 
E. M. Altman, pastor of Grant Park Baptist church, where two hearts were made 
as one, as the saying goes; bade goodby to textbooks and boarded the honeymoon 
express. 

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